Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has again strenuously
denied the latest doping allegations levelled against him by Floyd Landis,
in a statement issued on his personal website.

Landis, a former team-mate of Armstrong who was stripped of the 2006 Tour title after testing positive for testosterone, in May accused a number of riders, including Armstrong, of doping and went into more detailed allegations in an article published in today's Wall Street Journal.

However, on the day the 97th Tour - Armstrong's last - begins in Rotterdam with an 8.9-kilometres time-trial, the record champion compared Landis' statements to a "carton of sour milk".

A statement on Armstrong's official website, read: "Today's Wall Street Journal article is full of false accusations and more of the same old news from Floyd Landis, a person with zero credibility and an established pattern of recanting tomorrow what he swears to today.

"The article repeats many of Landis' baseless and already-discredited claims against many successful people in cycling, and even includes some newly created Landis concoctions.

"Landis' credibility is like a carton of sour milk: once you take the first sip, you don't have to drink the rest to know it has all gone bad.